3 ms·

I wish they would just pass a law banning office spaces without doors.

• stephengillie 10y ago
  A door isn't that helpful when everyone can just ping you on Slack anyway. And it's not like you can close the app for a while, because then people think you're unresponsive and unhelpful. Especially when 1/3 of your team is remote.
  • atomwaffel 10y ago
    But I can mentally snooze a Slack notification for three minutes or so, enough to neatly tuck away everything in my head and reach a state where I can more easily resume what I was doing. That doesn't work as well when I have someone breathing down my neck who "just wants a really quick word".
• metaphor 10y ago
  I can deal with not having doors, but that call-center-meets-assembly-line layout with seats intended to be filled by engineers actually gave me the chills to learn that they really do exist. I supposed the application wouldn't do me any good: working at a place like that, I'd sooner fire myself!